Historic Preservation at the University of Hawai‘i

Historic Preservation Faculty
The faculty in Historic Preservation, within the Department of American Studies and in closely related schools and departments of the University of Hawai‘i, represent a wide range of backgrounds, training, experience and interests. Nearly all have worked internationally at some point in their careers. All have had some experience with governmental agencies, at the local, state, federal and international levels. Some have had considerable experience in private practice. Nearly all hold doctoral degrees and all are involved in ongoing research, both at an applied level and at a more academic level. Key faculty are centrally involved in state, national and international organizations, helping to keep themselves and students abreast of current issues in the field.

Faculty are divided into three areas: those in the Department of American Studies; those in other departments or schools of the University, with a substantial involvement in historic preservation-related subjects; and those in an adjunct capacity or visiting lecturers providing training or instruction in specific aspects of historic preservation.

Department of American Studies Faculty

William R. Chapman, D.Phil., Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program (D.Phil, Oxford; M.S., Historic Preservation, Columbia), is an anthropologist and historic preservationist with considerable research and teaching experience in international preservation. A former Fulbright scholar (Italy 1985, Thailand 1999, Cambodia 2002), Chapman has worked in England, southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, India, and throughout the continental United States. He was formerly Historian, Mid-Atlantic Region, National Park Service, and a faculty member at the School of Environmental Design, the University of Georgia, and has received numerous historic preservation awards and recognitions. He is the author of several books and many articles on historic preservation-related topics, which have appeared in the Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, Winterthur Portfolio, Places, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Archaeology, and numerous other journals.

Karen K. Kosasa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Director, Museums Studies Graduate Certificate Program (Ph.D., University of Rochester). Ms. Kosasa is involved in interdisciplinary research and influenced by the work of scholars from diverse fields: anthropology, art history, (post)colonial theory, critical pedagogy, cultural geography, cultural studies, literary criticism, media studies, and museum studies. Her dissertation, “Critical Sights/Sites: Art Pedagogy and Settler Colonialism in Hawai‘i” examines the teaching and learning of art within the context of colonialism in the United States and Hawai‘i.

Cooperating Faculty

• P. Bion Griffin, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies
• David L. Callies, J.D., L.L.M., Professor of Law
• Luciano Minerbi, Dott.Arch., M.UP, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Design
• Michael W. Graves, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
• Spencer Leineweber, FAIA, B.Arch., Professor of Architecture
• Leighton K.F. Liu, M.F.A., Associate Professor of Architecture
• C. Michael Douglass, Ph.D., Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
• Russell Uyeuno, Ed.D., Travel Industry Management School